Discliamer: I do not own Yugioh or The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Summary: A misshapen Ryou is hidden from the world by Bakura with in the bell tower of Notre Dame. But when the Festival of Duels comes to town, will Ryou disobey his Yami and leave his sanctuary for once in his life?
Key:
"Text" - normal speech
"Text" - Singing
YuGiOh Does The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Chapter 1 - The Bells of Notre Dame
"Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
To the big bells as loud as the thunder
To the little bells soft as a psalm
And some say the soul of the city's
The toll of the bells
The bells of Notre Dame," Pegasus sang to a bunch of children as they sat beneath a church. "Listen, they're beautiful, no? So many colours of sound, so many changing moods. Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves."
"They don't?" Joey said as he sat beside Pegasus.
"No, silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower
lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?
"Who?"
"What is he?"
"What?"
"How did he come to be there?"
"How?"
"Hush,"Pegasus said as hit Joey over the head with stick..
"Ouch!" Joey responded, as the children laughed.
"And I will tell you…it is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster.
Dark was the night when our tale was begun
on the docks near Notre Dame."
(Author's notes: When the writing is like this, it isPegasus singing as he is telling the story)
---Story---
Three men and a woman, with long brown hair, sat on a boat going along the river. The woman was holding a baby wrapped in a blanket. It was crying.
"Shut it up, will you!" Valon yelled at Serenity.
"We'll be spotted!" Alister replied.
"Hush, little one," Serenity whispered to her child. The baby stopped crying as they stepped out of the boat.
Four frightened Rare hunters slid silently under the docks near Notre Dame
"Four guilders for safe passage into Paris," Bones said as he stuck his hand out.
But a trap had been laid for the Rare Hunters
and they gazed up in fear and alarm
at a figure whose clutches
were iron as much as the bells.
"Judge Bakura!" Alister said as he saw the figure on a black horse coming towards them.
The bells of Notre Dame.
Judge Bakura longed
to purge the world
of vice and sin
And he saw corruption
everywhere
except within.
"Bring these vermin to the palace of justice," Bakura said. He was in black robes and wearing a black hat.
"You there, what are you hiding?" A guard said as he tried to grab the baby off of Serenity.
"Stolen cards, no doubt," Bakura replied. "Take them from her!"
She ran
Serenity ran though the streets of Paris as fast as she could, still carrying the baby, with Bakura chasing after her on his horse. She then jumped over a fence, which Bakura couldn't get though.
Serenity then reached the church of Notre Dame and banged on the wooden doors.
"Sanctuary, please give us sanctuary!" Serenity yelled, but then she saw Bakura coming towards her and she tried to run away again. But Bakura grabbed hold off the baby. Serenity tried pulling her child back, but Bakura pulled harder. This made Serenity let go and fell backwards; she hit the church steps hard. She did not move after that.
The baby started to cry again, as Bakura looked down at the child in his hands.
"A baby?" he said to himself before lifting the blanket up from it's face so he could see it. Bakura gasped. "A monster!"
Bakura then looked around and saw a near by well. He went over to it on his horse and then held the baby over it.
"Stop!" cried the tall, tri-coloured, spiky haired Archdeacon.
"Yami," Bakura said as he saw him. "This is an unholy demon.
I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs."
"See there the innocent blood you have spilt, on the steps of Notre Dame," Yami sang as he picked up Serenity's dead body. He was wearing red and white robes and had a hood on.
"I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued."
"Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt, on the steps of Notre Dame."
"My conscience is clear."
"You can lie to yourself and your minions
you can claim that you haven't a qualm
but you never can run from
nor hide what you've done from the eyes
the very eyes of Notre Dame."
Bakura looked around and saw all of the statues upon the Notre Dame walls. He felt as if they were all staring at him…and judging him.
And for one time in his live of power and control
Bakura felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul.
"What must I do?" Bakura asked.
"Care for the child, and raise it as your own," Yami replied.
"What? I'd be settled with this misshapen…? Very well, but let him live with you, in your church."
"Live here? Where?"
"Anywhere…Just so he's kept locked away
where no one else can see. The bell tower, perhaps. And who knows, our Lord works in mysterious ways. Even this foul creature may yet prove one day to be of use to me."
And Bakura gave the child a cruel name. A name that means half-formed, Ryou...
---End of Story---
"Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
sing the bells of Notre Dame
who is the monster and who is the man?"Pegasus sang as the church bells started ringing. "Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells of Notre Dame."